Local Steelworkers official proposes forgoing 16-cent wage hike
Paul Komar recording secretary of USW Local 1229 in Monessen PA urges the union to skip the next 16-cent cost of living raise due Aug 1 1975 to curb wage and price increases. He wrote to IW Abel and said the move could pressure steel companies to hold prices. Komar noted elderly retirees favored the idea though many members may not share it.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Steelworkers of America
Paul Komar
USW
Monessen
Abel
Komar
United Steelworkers
Steelworkers
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp
Solons Abound in Cliches and Phrases
Harrisburg UPI reports editors and reporters often rely on cliches. A stern warning hangs over a desk advising to avoid clichés like the plague. The piece notes the ease of dismissing ideas with phrases such as a pig in a poke rather than offering reasons.
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Thoma Harrisburg
UPI
Iso
Sister Nominated for Gulf Oil Board First Woman Director
Directors of Gulf Oil Corp nominate Sister Jane Scully president of Carlow College for election as the first woman member of the board. Her election is virtually assured as the board expands from 12 to 13 to accommodate her. The proxy statement discloses the nomination for the April 22 stockholders meeting.
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Pittsburgh
UPL
Gulf Oil Corp
Jane Scully
Carlow College
Jane
Female trooper decoy helps halt campus rapes at Slippery Rock
Marilyn Reber a 26 year old state trooper posed as a coed with three other female troopers to lure rapists. Two men and a juvenile were arrested after an attempted assault on Reber and three men were charged with a March 7 rape. The arrests followed a two month spike in rapes and attempted rapes at Slippery Rock State College.
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Slippery Rock, Pa
UPI
Marilyn Reber
Slippery Rock State College
Butler County
Reber
New Castle Barracks
Liew
Raymond C. Scott
Parker
Armstrong County
Howard W. Boofer
Richard H. Pisler
Hilliard
Butler
Pennsylvania Lawmakers Battle Cliches On Floor
The Pennsylvania House resumes after two months of committee work as members debate the Shapp administration Consumer Advocates bill. Critics call it window dressing and a boondoggle while some deploy new and shopworn phrases, warning that chatter won t change votes.
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Pennsylvania
House
Loor
Shapp
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